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Edition; 1st trade ed. Physical description; 328 pages. Notes; First English edition: London: Deutsch, 1986. Summary; 52-year-old Roger is a professor in the divinity school. Into his stuffy life breezes his 19-year-old half-niece, Verna. So when his wife starts a thing with a spotty, evangelical computer freak, he feels tempted to examine his niece's thesis that "girls just wanna have fun". Subjects; Religious educators - Fiction. God - Proof - Data processing - Fiction. Fiction in English - American writers - (1945-) - Texts. fiction in English - (1945-) - American writers - texts. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.
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"Remarkably interesting . . . One finishes it with . . . renewed respect for one of the most intelligent and resourceful of contemporary novelists."--David Lodge, "The New York Times Book Review"
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"Wonderful reading from beginning to end . . . The precise, laconic bull's-eye descriptive passages in this novel continually amaze with their absolute accuracy.""--San Francisco Chronicle"
"Wonderfully tricky and nakedly sharp-minded . . . Updike's Roger Lambert is a perfectly 20th-century beast--boastfully wicked in all directions.""--The Washington Post Book World"
Remarkably interesting . . . One finishes it with . . . renewed respect for one of the most intelligent and resourceful of contemporary novelists. David Lodge, The New York Times Book Review
Wonderful reading from beginning to end . . . The precise, laconic bull s-eye descriptive passages in this novel continually amaze with their absolute accuracy. San Francisco Chronicle
Wonderfully tricky and nakedly sharp-minded . . . Updike s Roger Lambert is a perfectly 20th-century beast boastfully wicked in all directions. The Washington Post Book World"
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"Wonderful reading from beginning to end . . . The precise, laconic bull's-eye descriptive passages in this novel continually amaze with their absolute accuracy.""--San Francisco Chronicle"
"Wonderfully tricky and nakedly sharp-minded . . . Updike's Roger Lambert is a perfectly 20th-century beast--boastfully wicked in all directions.""--The Washington Post Book World"
Remarkably interesting . . . One finishes it with . . . renewed respect for one of the most intelligent and resourceful of contemporary novelists. David Lodge, The New York Times Book Review
Wonderful reading from beginning to end . . . The precise, laconic bull s-eye descriptive passages in this novel continually amaze with their absolute accuracy. San Francisco Chronicle
Wonderfully tricky and nakedly sharp-minded . . . Updike s Roger Lambert is a perfectly 20th-century beast boastfully wicked in all directions. The Washington Post Book World"
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0233979883
- ISBN 13 9780233979885
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages256
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